Zetland Hotel England, UK

Listed Building Description

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MIDDLESBROUGH ZETLAND ROAD, NZ 4920 NE south side.

8/98 No. 9 (Zetland Hotel) G.V. II Hotel c.1860. Rear extensions 1893 by J.M. Bottomley, and 1898 (2nd and 3rd floors) by W. Duncan (both Middlesbrough). Brick; frontage rendered and scored to imitate rusticated ashlar. Welsh slate roof with brick stack Italianate style. 3 storeys and basement, 6 bays. Public house frontage on ground floor. Renewed double doors and overlights in right end bay. Chamfered plinth with 3 richly-ornamented pierced iron basement vent grilles in 2nd, 4th and 5th bays. Altered glazing; painted glass-panelled stallrisers recessed behind short slender quasi-Ionic columns supporting shorter fluted square quasi-Tuscan columns, frieze and bracketed cornice. Round-headed upper windows with archivolts and moulded imposts; casements on first floor, sashes on 2nd floor. Late C20 bracketed sign centred between upper floors. Applied lettering: "ZETLAND HOTEL", under bracketed eaves cornice. Shallow-pitched roof has 3 late C19 flat-roofed dormers, and central transverse ridge stack. INTERIOR: mosaic floor, in lobby has hotel name and Greek-Key border. Dogleg staircase has closed string; round-headed arcaded column-on-vase balustrade, moulded handrail, carved panelled square newels and panelled dado. Rear extension has 1893 polychrome faience 3x5-bay panelled room. Panelled dado, below keyed round-headed arcading, holding etched mirrors and renewed windows in architraves. Mirrored panels in pilasters; egg-and-dart-moulded archivolts, scrolled keys with cherub masks, and reeded and fluted impost bands. Renewed door in architrave, under fancy panelled frieze and cornice. Egg-and-dart-moulded ceiling cornice above frieze with waterleaves, shells, cherubs, scrolls and baskets of fruit. Jacobean-style geometric-panelled plaster ceiling with moulded ribs.

Listing NGR: NZ4953320640